Falih Alfayyadh

Falih Alfayyadh (1 February 1956-) was Chairman of the Popular Mobilization Forces and the founder of the Ataa Movement party.

Biography
Falih Alfayyadh was born in Babil, Iraq on 1 February 1956, and he worked as an electrical engineer before becoming involved with the anti-Saddam Hussein opposition. Following the Iraq War, he became a politician in the new, Shia-dominated Iraqi state, and he was hosted at the White House by President Barack Obama in 2011. During the Iraqi Civil War, he became Chairman of the Popular Mobilization Forces, and he founded the Ataa Movement in 2017. On 31 December 2019, he was one of the leaders of the Shia paramilitary attack on the US embassy in Baghdad, and, on 3 January 2020, he was captured by the US Marine Corps amid a wave of retaliations against Iran and its proxies for the embassy attack.